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isabella-colour, and the feathers of this part cover 

 half the tail, which is very short, strong, elastic, and 

 rounded. The female is rather less, the crest smaller, 

 and of the same slate-colour as the lower parts of the 

 body : the borders of the feathers of the back, and 

 wing, are narrower : the nape and abdomen the same 

 as the male : the young, in a state of moult, have the 

 crest partly red and partly slate-colour. 



The Sumatran specimens are rather larger : the 

 forehead and crest in the males are bright vermilion ; 

 and the crest in the females is rather longer and more 

 ample than in those of Java. 



Sp. 13. Pi. Capensis. Steph. v. ix. p. 194. — Le pic olive. Le 

 Vaill, Ois. d'A/riq. v. vi. pi. 248. male ; 249. female. — Southern 

 Africa. 



Sp. 14. Pi. Nubicus. Steph. v. hi. p. 180. — Le pic tigre. Le 



Vaill. Ois. d'Afriq. v. vi. pi. 250. — Nubia. 

 Sp. 15. Pi. diophrys. 



Pi. olivaceo-fuscus suprh nitore grisescens^ infra albido undulatus ; 



occipite coccineo; capitis lateribus albis fascid duplici a rostri 



nigra; guld medio alba. 

 Olive-brown Woodpecker with a greyish-gloss above, and waved 



with white beneath ; with the occiput crimson ; the sides of 



the neck white; with a double black stripe from the beak; the 



throat white in the middle. 

 Le Pic a double Moustache. Le Vaill. Ois. d'Afriq. v. v. p. 22. 



pi. 251, 252, — Double -bearded Woodpecker. Lath. Gen. Hist. 



V. ill. p. 355. 



Inhabits Southern Africa. Beak black : irides 

 deep red : plumage above olive, varying in different 

 lights to brown, yellow, and grey, especially towards 

 the neck and rump, where the grey is most predomi- 

 nant, and appears on the margins of the feathers at 

 the end : back part of the head crimson ; sides, under 



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